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DCP-LETT-3306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:

CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693)
Summary:

Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197)
Summary:

Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:

Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:

Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691)
Summary:

Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].

Will follow his suggestion about violets.

Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.

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